School Supply Drive

Last year over 550 kids received school supply bags from the Food Shelf.  The need was so great in fact that a number of kids had very slimly packed bags.   This year we would like to help provide for them.  There are 2 important ways you can be involved.

1. Bring supplies in to the church that can be given to these kids.  Supplies include (Major needs: Colored Pocket Folders, College Ruled Paper, Backpacks, washable markers, spiral bound notebooks & colored pencils)
2. Because of the huge need and response there is help needed in passing out the materials  on Wed. August 18th.

New Life Family Services Needs Your Help!

New Life Family Services – St. Paul

Office Supplies Wish List

Paper Goods

• Kleenex (10 boxes)
• Roll Paper Towels (10 – 24packs)
• Napkins (1 large pack)
• Bathroom Tissue (10 – 24 packs)

Miscellaneous

• 2-pocket folders (we need 100 for the year)
• Legal Pads (1 pack)
• Stamps (25 rolls)
• 60 Watt Light Bulbs (4 – 4 packs)
• Halogen Light Bulb – F5520/380 (2)
• Scotch Tape (5 refills)
• Gift Cards to Office Max or Target (as many as people would like to give)
• Packaging Tape (3 rolls)
• Anti-Bacterial Hand Sanitizer (1 dispenser and 1 large refill)
• Hand Soap (2 dispensers and 4 refills)
• Disinfectant Spray/Wipes for reception area (4)
• Swiffer Wet Jet Refills and pads (4)

Office Organization

• Corkboard for front reception area (2)

Paper

• Max Brite Recycled Pastels Paper 20 Lb. in the following colors:
  • Yellow (2 reams)
  • Green (2 reams)
  • Orchid (2 reams)
  • Cherry (5 reams)
  • Salmon (2 reams)
• Max Brite 20 Lb. 92 Brightness White Paper (5 reams)
• Avery Labels
  • 5160 – address label (4 boxes)
  • 5263 -  shipping label (2 boxes)
  • 5266 – file folder label  (2 boxes)
• White Redi-Seal Business Envelopes (2 boxes)

*Bold are the current biggest office supply needs!

**Also as always we could use diapers, wipes, baby clothing (any items for our clothing closet)

THANK YOU CHURCH!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU CHURCH! The donations for the families of the townhouse fire have been overwhelming! To the point where we need to stop collecting for the time being.

Once they are able to move back into their homes we will start another more specific request for items. You are all a blessing, thanking God for you!

HELP: 5 Families in Need Following Fire

update: 6/9

We have determined that there is a need for furniture, especially bedroom stuff as the bedrooms of the units were destroyed since they were on the upper levels.  Stuff that we can take: beds (frame & mattresses), dressers, cribs, change tables, kitchen tables, chairs, sofa, tv stand/entertainment center, etc… Please contact us BEFORE you drop stuff off by emailing Brian here.

We have an opportunity to BE the church for some people in our community with a BIG need….

Last night a fire claimed the homes of 5 families in a complex in Cottage Grove. A big need for these people is clothing, cards to Target, Cub, Rainbow, etc.

We are collecting the following clothing items, if you can help out please bring items to church and place in/around the shopping cart where food shelf donations are made:

• L-3XL Women’s Clothing
• 0-3mo Boys
• 2T-5T – Boy’s & Girls

For questions and/or more information please email Brian by clicking here.

Follow Jesus, Live Love!

The Most Dangerous Prayer

This little video has been on the digital shelf for about two years.  Thought I’d blow the dust off and share it again.  The Most Dangerous Prayer.

http://www.vimeo.com/2336486

A new video

I was asked by our denomination to shoot a short video on what it’s like to be a mission church 2 1/2 years after launch.  Thought I’d share.

http://www.vimeo.com/9861269

Kids Against Hunger

I missed you all this last weekend.  Had a beautiful and much needed daddy weekend.  But, I’ll warn you I woke up hungry to preach on Sunday and am already looking forward to next week.  We are entering into some awesome parts of Romans.

To the real reason for this post.  This last weekend our friend Jenny invited us to serve for a couple hours with a ministry called Kids Against Hunger.  As a parent it is really hard to find missional things that the entire family could be a part of.  So, this was such a gift.  My 4 year old daughter was helping to load bags of food while my hair net clad boys filled them, weighed them and passed them down.

It was an awesome experience.  So much so that I’m thinking that this could be a great thing for our church to get involved with on our own.  Praying on that.  Potentially more to come at a later date.

Power to the People!

Alright here’s the deal…..want to do a new song this coming weekend and I can’t decide. You have until 2p tomorrow (Tuesday) to vote on the tunes. Take a listen in the player below and then cast your vote!

Voting is now closed.

New Tunes To Listen For

Hey all, I’m gonna try and shoot a few new tunes to you all each week.  Some of these might be stuff we have cookin’ on the back burner for some future Sunday or it could be a few tracks I have been listening to on repeat over the last week.  Whatever the case may be, fire up the audio and keep it in the background while you go about your things and let me know what you think or talk about some of the stuff you have been listening to.

Enjoy!

Tutoring @ the Shelter

We are looking to recruit some tutors for “homework help” at the Women’s shelter….no PhD or teaching degree required; just a little bit of patience, creativity (if all else fails, use your “phone-a-friend”) and a desire to make a difference in the life of a child!

The staff and families at the shelter have been looking for some additional help with homework for some time now, as it has been stretching the staff there a bit thin. Based on the interest level so far, we are hoping to kick things off in February.

The goal is a monthly rotation that offers 2 tutors each Tues from 3-4:00 and Wed from 5-6:00. We are asking for a committment of at least one night/month, and in an effort to provide consistency for the kids, would love to have a few of us there 2 or more evenings/month.

If interested in homework help, please contact Amber Condon using the form below letting her know these things:

1. Do you prefer Tuesday from 3-4:00 or Wednesday from 5-6:00?
2. Is there a particular week of the month that works best for you?
3. When are you available to start?
4. How many days/month you would like to help out?

And any other feedback you may have.

Thanks much!
Amber

Next Page »